Pop Bio Alumni Directory
The Population Biology Graduate Group was established in 1992. We began admitting students in 1993-94.
ABBOTT, Jessica: Ph.D. December 2015
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: The Effects of Genotypic Richness, Genetic Relatedness, and Trait Variation in a Seagrass Community
Current Postion: Research Ecologist
Institute for Wildlife Studies; Arcata, CA
http://www.iws.org/staff_directory.html
ADLER, Lynn: Ph.D. June 2000
Mentor(s): Rick Karban and Sharon Strauss
Dissertation: Herbivory and pollination in hemiparasitic plants: effects of host plant and host-obtained alkaloids.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Biology
University of Massachusetts
http://people.umass.edu/lsadler/adlersite/adler/adlerprofile.html
AFKHAMI, Michelle: Ph.D. March 2013
Mentor(s): Sharon Strauss
Disseration: Effects of Mutualists and TheirInteractions at Local and Rangewide Scales.
Current Postion: Assistant Professor of Ecology, University of Miami
https://michelleafkhami.wordpress.com
AGRAWAL, Anurag: Ph.D. June 1999
Mentor(s): Rick Karban
Dissertation: Evolutionary ecology of phenotypic plasticity in plant defense against.
Current Position: Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University
http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/agrawal
AQUILINO, Kristin: Ph.D. December 2011
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: A Multi-Factorial Approach to Examining the Causes and Consequences of Local Rocky Shore Species Distributions.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher: Bodega Marine Labs
ARMSTRONG, Anne Frances: Ph.D. March 2018
Mentor(s): Richard Grosberg
Dissertation: A Comparative Developmental and Transcriptomic Analysis of the Evolution of Larval Type in Two Sea Biscuit Species and their Hybrids
Current Position: Postdoc
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California
ASHANDER, Jaime: Ph.D. September 2016
Mentor(s): Marissa Baskett
Dissertation: Causes and Consequences of Evolutionary Rescue in Noisy Environments
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington DC, https://www.ashander.info/
BAACK, Eric: Ph.D. December 2003
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: An Investigation of Ecological Factors Affecting Tetraploid Speciation in Snow Buttercups Ranunculus Adoneus and Ranunculaceae.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology
Luther College
https://www.luther.edu/baacer01/
BAKER, Mitchell: Masters November 1994 ; Ph. D. Animal Behavior, December 1998
Mentor(s): Hugh Dingle
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Queens College, CUNY
http://biology.qc.cuny.edu/people/faculty/mitchell-baker/
BASTOW, Justin: Ph.D. December 2007
Mentor(s): Donald Strong
Dissertation: Processing Chain Interactions in a Grassland Detrital Food Web: The Role of Porcellio Scaber in the California Coastal Prairie.
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Eastern Washington University
BAYTHAVONG (JACOBS), Brooke: Ph.D. June 2009
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton and Kevin Rice
Dissertation: Understanding the Consequences of Spatial Environmental Variation in a Serpentine Mosaic Landscape: Selection on Seed Dispersal, Genetic Differentiation, and Phenotypic Plasticity.
Current Position: Environmental Program Manager, Water Branch, Ecosystem Conservation Division, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
BELL, Alison: Ph.D. September 2003
Mentor(s): Judy Stamps
Dissertation: Effects of an Endocrine Disrupter on the Development of Behavioral Differences Between Individuals and Populations of Three-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus Aculeatus).
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Animal Biology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
https://sib.illinois.edu/bell/Bell_lab_web_page/Welcome.html
BENARD, Michael: Ph.D. September 2005
Mentor(s): H. Bradley Shaffer
Dissertation: Local Adaptation and Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Predators: An Investigation Using the Pacific Treefrog (Pseudacris Regilla).
Current Position: Associate Professor of Biology
Case Western Reserve University
BERG, Jeremy: Ph.D. September 2016
Mentor(s): Graham Coop
Dissertation: On the Population Genetics of Adaptation From Standing Variation
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics
University of Chicago
http://www.jjbpopgen.org/
BEST, Rebecca: Ph.D. December 2012
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: Ecological and Evolutionary Determinants of Diversity in Communities of Seagrass Mesograzers
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Northern Arizona University
BOETTIGER, Carl: Ph.D. December 2012
Mentor(s): Alan Hastings
Dissertation: Regime Shifts in Ecology and Evolution
Current Position: Assistant Professor
UC Berkeley
BOLNICK, Daniel: Ph.D. September 2003
Mentor(s): Peter Wainwright
Dissertation: Intraspecific competition and niche expansion
Current Position: Professor
University of Texas at Austin
BRADBURD, Gideon: Ph.D. September 2015
Mentor(s): Graham Coop
Dissertation: Exploring Spatial Patterns of Genetic Differentiation.
Current Position: : Fall 2016, Assistant Professor
Michigan State University
https://integrativebiology.natsci.msu.edu/news/department-of-integrative-biology-welcomes-gideon-bradburd/, and http://genescape.ucdavis.edu/
BRADY, Sean: Ph.D. September 2002
Mentor(s): Phil Ward
Dissertation: Phylogenetics of Army Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Based on Morphological and Molecular Data.
Current Position: Curator of Hymenoptera (Ants & Bees)
Smithsonian Institute: National Museum of Natural History
http://entomology.si.edu/StaffPages/BradyS.htm
BRAND, Philipp: Ph.D. December 2019
Mentor(s): Santiago Ramirez
Dissertation: The Molecular Evolution of Perfume Communication and Reproductive Isolation in Orchid Bees.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, The Rockefeller University
https://evolvingors.wordpress.com/
BRAVERMAN, John: Ph.D. September 1995
Mentor(s): Charles Langley
Dissertation: Genetic Hitchhiking: A Computer Simulation Study and Survey of DNA Variation in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster.
Current Position: Fr. Braverman is Associate Professor of Biology
Saint Joseph's University
https://www.sju.edu/about-sju/faculty-staff/john-m-braverman-sj-phd
BRUNA, Emilio: Ph.D. September 2001
Mentor(s): Susan Harrison and Sharon Strauss
Dissertation: Effect of Habitat Fragmentation on the Growth, Reproduction, and Population Dynamics of an Amazonian Understory Herb (Heliconia acuminata, Heliconiaceae).
Current Position: Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation,
University of Florida
http://brunalab.org/
BUFFALO, Vincent: Ph.D. December 2019
Mentor(s): Graham Coop
Dissertation: Exploring the Effects of Linkage for Ancestry and Temporal Polygenic Adaptation.
Current Position: Postdoc
University of Oregon
(with Andy Kern - former Pop Bio grad student; and Peter Ralph - Coop postdoc)
BYRNES, Jarrett: Ph.D. June 2008
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: Patterns and Consequences of Changing Biodiversity in Coastal Marine Food Webs.
Current Position: Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Boston
CALFEE, Erin: Ph.D. June 2021
Mentor(s): Graham Coop
Dissertation: Impact of Introgression on Adaptation and Range Expansions
Current Position: Adaptive Technologies
CAPLINS, Serena: Ph.D. March 2020
Mentor(s): Rick Grosberg
Dissertation: The Evolution of Developmental Mode in Poecilogonous Sacoglossan Sea Slugs Using Comparative Transcriptomics and Genomics.
Current Position: NSF Postdoctoral Scientist, UC Davis and UC Berkeley
https://serenacaplins.wordpress.com/about/
CARLSON, Rose: Ph.D. June 2008
Mentor(s): Peter Wainwright
Dissertation: Evolution of Morphological and Ecological Diversity in Darter Fishes (Percidae Etheostomatinae).
Current Position: Medical Student
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY
CHANDLER, James ("Angus"): Ph.D. June 2013
Mentor(s): Artyom Kopp
Dissertation: Composition and Assembly of the Drosophila Microbiome
Current Position: Scientist, Zymergen, Inc.
CHRISTIAN, Caroline: Ph.D. December 2002
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: Dynamics of a Seed Dispersal Mutualism Coasts, Benefits, and the Consequences of a Biological Invasion.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies; and Adjunct Faculty in Biology
Sonoma State University
http://www.sonoma.edu/biology/faculty/caroline_christian.html
CHRISTIE, Kyle: Ph.D. December 2018
Mentor(s): Sharon Strauss
Dissertation: Evolution and Ecology of Reproductive Isolation in California Jewelflowers
Current Position: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Northern Arizona University, co-advised by Liza Holeski, Northern Arizona State, and David Lowry, Michigan State University, http://holeskilab.weebly.com/people--opportunities.html
CLEMENT, Dale: Ph.D. March 2002
Mentor(s): Sebastian Schreiber
Dissertation: Modeling the Effects of Evolutionary History and Stochasticity on Population Responses to Rapid Environmental Change
Current Position: Postdoc, with Andrew Storfer, Washington State University
COLFER, Ramana: Ph.D. March 2002
Mentor(s): Jay Rosenheim
Dissertation: Predator-Predator Interactions and Their Influence on Biological Control and Herbivore Population Dynamics in the Cotton Agroecosystem.
Current Position: Director of Research
Mission Organics, Salinas, CA
COLLAR, David: Ph.D. September 2007
Mentor(s): Peter Wainwright
Dissertation: Evolution of Morphological and Functional Diversity of Centrarchid Fishes.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University
www.davidcollar.info
CONTINO, Colin: Master's December 2019
Mentor(s): David Begun
Current Position: TBA
COPREN, Kirsten: Ph.D. June 2004
Mentor(s): Robert Page
Dissertation: The Genetic and Social Structure of the Western Subterranean Termite, Retiulitermes Hesperus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae).
Current Position: Lab Manager, Genome Analysis Core, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California, San Francisco
http://cancer.ucsf.edu/index.php
CORN, Katherine: Ph.D. September 2022
Mentor(s): Peter Wainwright
Dissertation: The Evolution of Form and Function in Teleost Fishes
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Virginia Tech, working with Josef Uyeda
https://kacorn.github.io
CORNWELL, Brendan: Ph.D. June 2018
Mentor(s): Richard Grosberg
Dissertation: Environmental Variation Across Nested Spatial Scales Differentially Shapes Patterns of Host and Symbiont Population Genetic Structure in a Marine Symbiotic Relationship
Current Position: Postdoc, Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey
CUTLER, David: Ph.D. December 1999
Mentor(s): John Gillespie
Dissertation: Understanding the Over-dispersed Molecular Clock.
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine in Genetic Medicine, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/geneticmedicine/People/Faculty/cutler.html#contact
DAEHLER, Curtis: Ph.D. June 1996
Mentor(s): Donald Strong
Dissertation: Seed Set Variability, Inbreeding Depression, and Effects of Herbivory in Introduced Smooth Cordgrass (Spartina Alterniflora) Invading Pacific Estuaries.
Current Position: Professor, Dept. of Botany
University of Hawaii
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/daehler/
DALRYMPLE, Sarah: Ph.D. September 2012
Mentor(s): Rick Karban
Disseration: Interaction Between Ants (Formica Sibylla) and Jeffrey Pine (Pinus Jeffrey) Trees Benefits Both Species in Forests Managed with Prescribed Fire
Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor
Boise State University
DAVIDSON, Jennifer: Ph.D. September 2000
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: Pathogen-Mediated Maintenance of Diversity and Fitness Consequences of Near Versus Far Pollination for Tropical Trees.
Current Position: Research Associate, Biology
Bowdoin College
http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/j/jdavidso/index.shtml
DAVIS, Heather: Ph.D. September 2004
Mentor(s): Donald Strong
Dissertation: The Ecology of an Invasive Grass, Spartina Alterniflora.
DECKER, Robin: Ph.D. September 2019
Mentor(s): Alan Hastings
Dissertation: Plant Population Dynamics Under Climate Change: Invasions, Range Shifts, and Resilience
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
University of Texas Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Lab of Caroline Farrior
https://robindecker.net/
DEERINWATER, Kathy: Ph.D. September 2015
Mentor(s): Rick Karban
Dissertation: Plant Volatiles as Information Sources Influencing Herbivore Preference and Performance
Current Position: Director of Strategic Initiatives and Research
American Indian Science and Engineering Society
http://www.aises.org/about/staff
DIAZ, Ryder: Masters September 2011
Mentor(s): Strauss
EDWARDS, Kyle: Ph.D. August 2010
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: Coexistence Mechanisms in a Sessile Marine Community.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
https://sites.google.com/site/kyleedwardsresearch/
EMERY, Nancy: Ph.D. December 2006
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: Ecology and Evolution of Distribution Patterns in Annual Plant Populations.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/emery/
ENGSTROM, Tag: Ph.D. June 2003
Mentor(s): H. Bradley Shaffer
Dissertation: Molecular Studies of Phylogenetics, Ecology and Conservation of Softshell Turtles (Family Trionychidae) and Amazon River Turtles (Podocnemis Unifilis).
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences
California State University, Chico
http://www.csuchico.edu/biol/faculty_staff/engstrom.shtml
EPPLEY, Sarah: Ph.D. September 2000
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: Intrapopulation sex ratio variation and sexual specialization in the dioecious grass Distichlis Spicata.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology
Portland State University
http://www.pdx.edu/biology/dr-sarah-eppley
FABINA, Nicholas: Ph.D. December 2014
Mentor: Sebastian Schreiber
Dissertation: Understanding complex coral reef communities using computational and theoretical approaches
Current Position: Data Scientist/Engineer, Farmers Business Network
San Carlos, California
FISHER, Robert: Ph.D. March 1995
Mentor(s): H. Bradley Shaffer
Dissertation: Tracing Human Impacts in Natural Systems: Geckos in the Pacific and Amphibians in the Central Valley.
Current Position: Biologist
USGS: Western Ecological Research Center, San Diego
http://www.werc.usgs.gov/person.aspx?personID=75
FITZPATRICK, Ben: Ph.D. September 2004
Mentor(s): Michael Turelli
Dissertation: Speciation and Barriers to Gene Flow.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
http://web.utk.edu/~bfitzpa1/people.html
FRAIZER, Tamara: Ph.D. June 1996
Mentor(s): Catherine Toft
Dissertation: Sexual Size Dimorphism, Mating Systems and Sexual Selection for Large Males in the Digger Wasp (microbembex Hymenoptera: Sphecidae).
Current Position: Principal Attorney (Bio/Life Sciences and Technology)
Fish and Richardson P.C.
http://www.fr.com/directory/directory.cfm?aid=357
FREEDMAN, Micah: Ph.D. March 2020
Mentor(s): Santiago Ramirez and Sharon Strauss
Dissertation: Contemporary Evolution during Global Range Expansion in the Monarch Butterfly.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Chicago; Kronforst Lab, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution
https://micahfreedman.github.io/
FREY, Melissa: Ph.D. June 2008
Mentor(s): Rick Grosberg and Geerat Vermeij
Dissertation: Systematics, Biogeography, and Pattersn of Diversification in a Group of Circumtropical marine Gastropods (Genus: Nerita).
Current Position: Invertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
Burke Museum, Univ. of Washington
http://www.burkemuseum.org/
FRIESEN, Maren: Ph.D. September 2008
Mentor(s): Sergey Nuzhdin
Dissertation: Variation in the Rhizobia-legume Symbiosis: Why are there Ineffective Rhizobia?
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University
http://css.wsu.edu/people/faculty/maren-l-friesen/
FULLER, Patrick: Master's 2014
Mentor: Peter Wainwright
GALLOWAY, Laura: Ph.D. March 1994
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: Evolution of Life-history Characters and Phenotypic Plasticity in Mimulus Guttatus.
Current Position: Professor, Dept. of Biology
University of Virginia
http://faculty.virginia.edu/galloway/
GAO, Jiansi: Ph.D. September 2022
Mentor(s): Brian Moore
Dissertation: Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference for Viral Dispersal Process
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle WA
GARDNER, Shea: Ph.D. June 1997
Mentor(s): Marc Mangel
Dissertation: Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Plant Life History Variation.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
https://www.llnl.gov/
GILLILAND, William: Ph.D. September 2003
Mentor(s): Charles Langley
Dissertation: Population Genetics of Two Female-Specific Meiotic Loci of Drosophila Melanogaster.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
DePaul University
http://condor.depaul.edu/wgillila/Gilliland_Lab/Lab_Home.html
GILMAN, Sarah: Ph.D. September 2003
Mentor(s): Richard Grosberg
Dissertation: Factors Controlling the Northern Geographic Range Limit of the Intertidal Limpet, Collisella Scabra (Gould).
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biology, W.M. Keck Science Department, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges
http://faculty.jsd.claremont.edu/sgilman/
GORIN, Jessica: Master's, December 1998
Mentor(s): H. Bradley Shaffer
GROSS, Collin: Ph.D. June 2023
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: Trait-Based and Phylogenetic Approaches to Understanding Community Assembly Processes in Eelgrass Beds
Current Position: Postdoc, Stanford
https://www.stanford.edu/
GROSSENBACHER, Dena: Ph.D. June 2013
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: Patterns and Processes of Floral Evolution and Speciation in Monkeyflowers, Mimulus
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Cal Poly
GUIZAR AMADOR, Maria Fernanda: Ph.D. September 2022
Mentor(s): Santiago Ramirez
Dissertation: The Ecological and Genetic Basis of Floral Scent Differentiation in the Orchid Genus Gongora
Current Position: Scientist, Computational Biology; Brightseed,
HALOIN, Jon: Master's September 2011
Mentor(s): Sharon Strauss and Jay Rosenneim
HARRIS, David: Ph.D. September 2015
Mentor(s): Andy Sih
Dissertation: Multi-Process Statistical Modeling of Species' Joint Distributions.
Current Position: Data Scientist, Wayfair
HAYGOOD, Ralph: Ph.D. June 2002
Mentor(s): Michael Turelli
Dissertation: Three Contributions to Theoretical Population Biology.
Current Position: Data Science Developer
Reverb Nation
http://www.visualcv.com/ralphhaygood
HERSCH, Erika: Masters, September 2001
Mentor(s): Catherine Toft
PhD University of Oregon 2007
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Michigan Technical Univeristy
http://pages.mtu.edu/~eherschg/index.html
HIGUERA (NELSON), Hannah: Ph.D. June 2023
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: Coloniality, Biogeography, and Pedagogy
Current Position: Instructor, Butte College, Oroville CA
https://www.butte.edu/
HOLLAND, Matthew: Ph.D. September 2008
Mentor(s): Alan Hastings
Dissertation: Transient Dynamics of Predator-Prey Metapopulations: Effects of Spatial Structure, Heterogeneity, and Stochasticity.
Current Position: California Water Board
http://two.ucdavis.edu/~holland/
HUDSON, Asher: Ph.D. June 2022
Mentor(s): Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Dissertation: Constraints to Adaptation in Maize: Environmental Trade-offs and Deleterious Alleles
Current Position: Postdoc, North Carolina State University
HULSEY, C. Darrin: Ph.D. September 2004
Mentor(s): Peter Wainwright
Dissertation: Functional Micro and Macroevolution in Fish Jaws.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Konstanz
http://www.evolutionsbiologie-uni-konstanz.com/dr-darrin-hulsey.html
JOHNSON, EVAN: Ph.D. September 2022
Mentor(s): Alan Hastings
Dissertation: Coexistence and Complex Population Dynamics
Current Position: Postdoc, University of Alberta, Canada, Lab of Mark Lewis
KARDISH, Melissa: Ph.D. March 2022
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: Disentangling the Processes Driving Microbial Community Assembly on a Marine Plant
Current Position: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
KELLY, Morgan: Ph.D. September 2011
Mentor(s): Richard Grosberg and Eric Sanford
Dissertation: Evolution of Thermal Tolerance and Mating Systems in Two Intertidal Crustaceans
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Science, Louisiana State University
KERN, Andrew: Ph.D. June 2005
Mentor(s): David Begun and John Gillespie
Dissertation: Drosophila Population Genomics.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Oregon
http://kernlab.org/index.html
KING, Elizabeth: Ph.D. December 2004
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: Aloe Secundiflora Shrubs as Facilitators in Degraded Kenyan Rangelands, and Their Potential Use in Restoration.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
http://kinglab.uga.edu/index.php/the-lab/lizzie-king/
KOLLARS, Nicole: Ph.D. March 2022
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: The Consequences of Grazing Disturbance on Eeelgrass Genotypic Diversity
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern, Marine Science Center
KONDRASHOV, Fyodor: Master's, December 2004
Mentor(s): Sergey Nuzhdin
LANE, Kate: Master's, June 2021
Mentor(s): Jonathan Eisen
Current Position: PhD Student, MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA
LAU, Jennifer: Ph.D. June 2005
Mentor(s): Sharon Strauss
Dissertation: Ecological and Evolutionary Responses of Native Exotic Community Members.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
Michigan State University
http://www.kbs.msu.edu/faculty/lau/
LAWNICZAK, Mara: Ph.D. September 2004
Mentor(s): David Begun
Dissertation: Phenotypic and Genetic Variation of Postcopulaatory Responses in Drosophila Melanogaster Females.
Current Position: Honrary Lecturer
Imperial College London, South Kensington
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/collegedirectory/index.asp?PeopleID=419124
LEE, Grace Yuh Chwen: Ph.D. June 2012
Mentor: Charles Langley
Dissertation: Population Genomics of Drosophila Coding Genes and the Evolutionary Impacts of Transposable Elements on Drosophila
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago; Position as of July 2019 - Assistant Professor, UC Irvine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, http://grylee.science/
LEE, Kristin: Ph.D. September 2018
Mentor(s): Graham Coop
Dissertation: Detecting Signatures of Convergent Adaptation in Population Genomic Data
Current Position: Postdoc
Columbia University, New York (Molly Przeworskie)
LEONARDO, Teresa: Ph.D. June 2004
Mentor(s): Jay Rosenheim and Sergey Nuzhdin
Dissertation: Host Plant Specialization in the Pea Aphid Exploring the Role of Facultative Symbionts.
Current Position: Global Climate Change Advisor, Regional Development Mission for Asia
USAID, Bangkok, Thailand
LEVINE, Mia: Ph.D. September 2009
Mentor: David Begun
Dissertation: Recurrent and recent selection in the Drosophila Melanogaster Genome.
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
https://www.bio.upenn.edu/people/mia-levine
LIN, You-Yu: Masters December 2008
Mentor: Charles Langley
LOCKWOOD, Dale: Ph.D. December 2002
Mentor(s): Louis Botsford
Dissertation: The Effects of Larval Dispersal and Spatial Heterogeneity on the Design of Marine Reserves.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Mathematics, Ecology and Statistics
Colorado State University
http://www.biology.colostate.edu/people/dale/
LONGO, Sarah: Ph.D. June 2017
Mentor(s): Peter Wainwright
Dissertation: Innovation and Constraint: The Evolution of a Novel Feeding Mechanism in Syngnathiform Fishes
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate
Duke University, North Carolina
https://pateklab.biology.duke.edu/users/sarahlongo
LUECKE, David: Ph.D. December 2018
Mentor(s): Artyom Kopp
Dissertation: Evolution of Genes, Genomes, and Development During the Emergence of Extreme Sexual Dimorphism in Drosophila Prolongata Forelegs
Current Position: Postdoc
Michigan State; MSU Electric Fish Lab
http://efish.integrativebiology.msu.edu/people
LUO, Yige: Ph.D. March 2023
Mentor(s): Artyom Kopp
Dissertation: The Origin of Sexual Dimorphism - From a Perspective of Fly Pheromones
Current Position: Bioinformatics Scientist
AbbVie Pharmaceutical, South San Francisco, CA
https://www.abbvie.com/
LUTTBEG, Bernard: Ph.D. September 1994
Mentor: Marc Mangel
Dissertation: Theoretical and empirical Studies of Information Gathering and Decision Making in Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus Aculeatus) Female Mate Choice.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Integrative Biology
Oklahoma State University
http://luttbegslab.okstate.edu/Home.html
MARKO, Peter: Ph.D. September 1997
Mentor: Rick Grosberg
Dissertation: Historical Allopatry, Sympatric Morphological Divergence, and the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in the Prosobranch Snail Genus Nucella.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Clemson University
http://www.clemson.edu/biosci/faculty/marko/lab/
MARSH, David: Ph.D. September 2000
Mentor(s): Susan Harrison
Dissertation: Experimental Studies of the Spatial Dynamics of Tungara Frog Populations.
Current Position: Professor, Dept. of Biology
Washington and Lee University
http://home.wlu.edu/~marshd/
MARTIN, Christopher: Ph.D. September 2013
Mentor(s): Peter Wainwright
Dissertation: Adaptive Radiation on the Fitness Landscape
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Curator of Ichthyology, Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/martin/
MAY, Michael: Ph.D. March 2019
Mentor(s): Brian Moore
Dissertation: Reliable Phylogenetic Methods for Understanding Variation in Rates of Evolution
Current Position: TBA
McBRIDE, Carolyn: Ph.D. December 2008
Mentor(s): Sergey Nuzhdin and Michael Turelli
Dissertation: Ecological Genomics and Incipient Speciation in Insects that have Invaded Novel Host Plants.
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Princeton
http://mcbridelab.princeton.edu/
McCALL, Andrew: Ph.D. September 2006
Mentor(s): Rick Karban
Dissertation: The Multiple Causes and Consequences of Florivory.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology
Denison University
http://personal.denison.edu/~mccalla/index.htm
McGEE, Matthew: Ph.D. December 2014
Mentor: Peter Wainwright
Dissertation: Functional Evolution in Threespine stickleback
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Monash University
MCINTYRE, Patrick: Ph.D. September 2011
Mentor(s): Sharon Strauss
Dissertation: Effects of whole genome duplication on adaptation, plasticity and niche variation in the Claytonia perfoliata (Portulacaceae) polyploid complex
Current Position: Scientist
CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
MCLENNAN, Laurie: Ph.D. December 1998
Mentor(s): Hugh Dingle
Dissertation: Aggregation in Hemiptera: A Life History Approach.
MCMUNN, Marshall: Ph.D. June 2018
Mentor(s): Louie Yang
Dissertation: Diel Variation Within Ecological Communities: Experimental and Observational Field Studies
Current Position: NSF Postdoc - UC Davis (Rachel Vannette) and UCSC (Stacy Philpott)
MEISNER, Matthew: Ph.D September 2015
Mentor(s): Jay Rosenheim and Sebastian Schreiber
Dissertation: Enhancing Data-Driven Decision Making in Agriculture: A Big Data Approach.
Current Position: Head of Data Science
Farmers Business Network, San Carlos, California
MILLER-MESSNER, Gabrielle: Ph.D December 2011
Mentor: Rick Grosberg
Dissertation: The Evolution of Self-Incompatibility in the Invasive Solitary Ascidian Genus, Ciona.
Current Position: Course Developer/Curriculum Lead
Udacity
MOORE, Jacob: Ph.D. September 2017
Mentor(s): Sebastian Schreiber
Dissertation: Restoration of Coastal Ecosystems: Understanding the Importance of Populations Structure, Positive Density Dependence, and Stochasticity
Current Position: Software Engineer, Consultant
Daugherty Business Solutions
MORGAN, (WATSON-ZINK) Victoria: Ph.D. June 2022
Mentor(s): Richard Grosberg
Dissertation: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Terrestriality: Exploring Sea-to-Land Life History Transitions in Decapod Crabs
Current Position: Stanford Science Fellow (Stanford Science Fellowship and NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology); Stanford University, Biology Department
MORITA, Shelah: Ph.D. September 2006
Mentor(s): Mike Sanderson and Peter Cranston
Dissertation: The Evolution of Long Proboscis Horse Flies (Diptetabanidae) in the Genus Philolicher (Wiedemann).
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Entomology
North Carolina State University
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/b/bwiegman/public_html/labweb/people.html
MORRISON, Lloyd: Ph.D. June 1995
Mentor(s): Thomas Schoener
Dissertation: Island Biogeography and Metapopulation Dynamics of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Current Positions: Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Biology
Missouri State University
http://www.faculty.missouristate.edu/l/LloydMorrison/
NAGY, Eric Sandor: Ph.D. June 1995
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: Ecological and Evolution Factors Influencing Gene Migration Between Two Subspecies in the Gilia Capitata Complex.
Current Position: Associate Director, Mountain Lake Biological Station
http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/nagy/
NELSON, Erik: Ph.D. December 2003
Mentor(s): Jay Rosenheim
Dissertation: Population Consequences of Predator Avoidance Behavior in the Pea Aphid
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Enviornmental Science, Policy and Management
University of California, Berkeley
NEYLAN, Isabelle: Ph.D. June 2023
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: The Legacy of Stress: Understanding the Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics That Promote Adaptive Within Generational and Transgenerational Plasticity
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
https://www.lsu.edu/
O'BRIEN, Anna: Ph.D. December 2017
Mentor(s): Sharon Strauss and Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Dissertation: The Confluence of Abiotic and Biotic Forces: Local Adaptation of Teosinte in the Context of Rhizosphere Biota and Environmental Gradients
Current Position: Postdoc (Megan Frederickson lab)
University of Toronto, Canada
OLYARNIK, Suzanne: Ph.D. December 2008
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: The Causes and Consequences of Macroalgal Blooms on an Eelgrass (Zostera Marina) Community in Bodega Harbor, CA.
Current Position: Reserve Director
Bodega Marine Lab, UC Davis
http://bml.ucdavis.edu/bmr/contact.html
O'MEARA, Brian: Ph.D. March 2008
Mentor(s): Phil Ward and Michael Turelli
Dissertation: Using Trees: Myremecocystus Phylogeny and Character Evolution and New Methods for Investigating Trait Evolution and Species Delimination.
Current Position: Associate Professor
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
http://www.brianomeara.info/lab
ORR, Matthew: Ph.D. June 1994
Mentor(s): Hugh Dingle
Dissertation: Geographic Variation, Life History Adaptation, and Reproductive Isolation in Two California Grasshoppers.
Current Position: Assistant Professor
University of Oregon http://ib.oregonstate.edu/faculty/orrma/matt-oor
PARICHY, David: Ph.D. June 1997
Mentor(s): Brad Shaffer and Carol Erickson
Dissertation: Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms Underlying Salamaner Pigment Patters.
Current Position: Professor, Dept. of Biology
University of Washington, Seattle
http://faculty.washington.edu/dparichy/
PERKINS, Alex: Ph.D. September 2011
Mentor(s): Alan Hastings
Dissertation: Coupled evolutionary and population dynamics of managed populations.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of Notre Dame
http://perkinslab.weebly.com/
PECK, Laura: Masters December 1995
Mentor(s): Jay Rosenheim
PIOVIA-SCOTT, Jonah: Ph.D. August 2010
Mentor(s): Thomas W. Schoener
Dissertation: Context-Dependence in an Ant-Plant Mutualism.
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Washington State University, Vancouver
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/jpioviascott/
PLASS, Doug: Masters December 2006
Mentor(s): Peter Chesson
PORTER, Stephanie: Ph.D. September 2011
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton and Kevin Rice
Dissertation: Evolutionary Responses to Environmental Context in the Legume-Rhizobium Mutualism
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Washington State University, Vancouver
http://research.vancouver.wsu.edu/porter-lab
PREISSER, Evan: Ph.D. September 2004
Mentor(s): Don Strong
Dissertation: What Forces Structure Food Web Interactions? Theoretical, empirical, and Mathematical Approaches.
Current Position: Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of Rhode Island
http://web.uri.edu/preisserlab/evan-preisser/
RANNEY, David: Masters December 1995
Mentor(s): Susan Harrison
RAY, Christine: Ph.D. December 1997
Mentor(s): Alan Hastings
Dissertation: Dynamics and Persistence of Spatially Structured Populations: Theoretical and Empirical Studies.
Current Position: Research Associate, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Colorado
http://instaar.colorado.edu/people/chris-ray/
RHOADES, Olivia: Ph.D.
Mentor(s): Jay Stachowicz
Dissertation: Consequences of Behavioral Trait Variation in Marine Consumer
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Environment, Florida International University
Institute of Environment, Florida International University
ROBINSON, Moria: Ph.D. December 2017
Mentor(s): Sharon Strauss
Dissertation: When Soils Cascade: Effects of Soil Resource Availability on Interactions Between Plants, Herbivores, and Their Natural Enemies
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
Entomology Department, Michigan State University (with William Wetzel, January 2018)
ROSE, Laura: Ph.D. December 2002
Mentor(s): Charles Langley
Dissertation: The Population Genetics and Functional Analysis of the PTO Disease Resistance Gene in Lycopersicon SPP and the RPP13 Gene in Arabidopsis Thaliana.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Institute of Population Genetics
Heinrich Heine University - Duesseldorf
http://www.popgen.hhu.de/unser-team
RUDGERS, Jennifer: Ph.D. September 2002
Mentor(s): Sharon Strauss and Don Strong
Dissertation: Evolutionary Ecology of ant Wild cotton Associations.
Current Position: Professor, Deptartment of Biology
The University of New Mexico
http://biology.unm.edu/core-faculty/rudgers.shtml
RUNQUIST (BRISCOE), Ryan: Ph.D. March 2012
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: Pollinator-Mediated Competition and Sources of Pollen Limitation in Limnanthes Douglasii and Limnanthes Alba.
Current Position: Researcher
Plant/Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota
RYAN, Maureen : Ph.D. November 2010
Mentor(s): H. Bradley Shaffer and Peter Chesson
Dissertation: Ecology of Amphibian Hybridization in a Changing Landscape.
Current Position: Postdoc
Josh Lawler Lab, University of Washington
SABELLA, Clarissa: Masters March 2011
Mentor(s): Rick Grosberg
SALEH, Nicholas: Ph.D. June 2020
Mentor: Santiago Ramirez
Dissertation: Social Behavior in the Orchid Bee, Euglossa Dilemma.
Current Position: National Science Foundation Postdoc, University of Florida, Department of Entomology and Nematology
SALTZ, Julia: Ph.D. December 2011
Mentor: Andy Sih
Dissertation: Social Gene-Environment Correlation: Its Behavioral Mechanisms and Fitness Effects in Drosophila Melanogaster
Current Postion: Assistant Professor
Biosciences, Rice University
https://saltzlab.wordpress.com/
SCHUBERT, Tara: Masters June 2000
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
SEARCY, Christopher: Ph.D. September 2011
Mentor(s): Thomas W. Schoener and Brad Shaffer
Dissertation: Conservation and Landscape Ecology of California Tiger Salamanders
Current Position: Assistant Professor
University of Miami
SEARS, Anna Warwick: Ph.D. June 2004
Mentor(s): Peter Chesson
Dissertation: Quantifying the Effects of Spatial Environmental Variation on Dynamics of Natural Plant Populations: Field Tests for Covariance Between Response to the Environment and Competition.
Current Position: Executive Director
Okanagan Basin Water Board
http://www.obwb.ca/contact/
SEDGHIFAR, Alisa: Ph.D. December 2015
Mentor(s): David Begun
Dissertation: Geographic Patterns of Genomic Variation Shaped by Demography and Selection
Current Position: Ancestry.com
San Francisco, California
http://genomics.princeton.edu/AndolfattoLab/People.html
SELLHEIM, Kirsten: Masters October 2009
Mentor: Jay Stachowicz
SHERRIFFS, Margaret: Masters June 2007
Mentor: Jay Rosenheim
SIGNOR, Sarah: Ph.D. June 2013
Mentor(s): Artyom Kopp
Dissertation: The Genetics of Convergent Evolution
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Southern California
SIMONS, Lee: Ph.D. June 1997
Mentor(s): Thomas Schoener
Dissertation: Distributional Ecology of Terrestrial Micromammals Based on Resource Preferences: Field Studies in Northern California.
Shasta Natural History Foundation
SPITZER, Brian: Ph.D. December 2003
Mentor(s): Sharon Strauss
Dissertation: Local Maladaptation and Maternal Effects in the Soft Scale Insect Saissetia Coffeae.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology
University of Redlands
STITZER, Michelle: Ph.D. December 2019
Mentor(s): Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Dissertation: The Genomic Ecosystem of Transposable Elements in Zea Mays.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Science Foundation Plant Genome Initiative,
Cornell University
https://www.maizegenetics.net/michellestitzer; https://mcstitzer.github.io/
SVOBODA, Julia: Masters March 2006
Mentor(s): David Begun
SWANN, Alisa: Masters September 1998
Mentor(s): Alan Hastings
SWEZEY, Daniel: Ph.D. December 2015
Mentor(s): Eric Sanford
Dissertation: Ocean Acidification on the California Coast: Responses of Marine Bryozoa to a High CO2 Future
Current Position: Scientist, The Cultured Abalone Farm, Santa Barbara
TAKADA, Tomomi: Masters December 2012
Mentor(s): Peter Wainwright
THOMSON, Robert: Ph.D. December 2010
Mentor(s): Brad Shaffer
Dissertation: Systematics at Multiple Scales of Diversity
Current Position: Assistant Professor
University of Hawaii at Manoa
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/biology/people/robert-thomson
TOONEN, Robert: Ph.D. December 2001
Mentor(s): Rick Grosberg
Dissertation: Genetic analysis of Recruitment and Dispersal Patterns in the Porcelian Shore Crab, Petrolisthes Cinctipes.
Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
University of Hawaii at Manoa
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~toonen/ToBo_Website/Home.html
TRENHAM, Peter: Ph.D. September 1998
Mentor(s):Brad Shaffer
Dissertation: Demography, Migration and Metapopulation Structure of Pond Breeding Salamanders.
Current Position: Lecturer & Academic Adviser, Department of Biology
Penn State
TRUSZCZYNSKI, Anna: Ph.D. September 2014
Mentor: Sharon Strauss
Dissertation: Exploring the Ecological Role of Native and Introduced Plant Species Through Network and Phylogenetic Analyses
Current Position: Manager, Stormwater Unit, Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta, Georgia
TURNER, Thomas: Ph.D. December 2008
Dissertation: Investigating the Causes and Consequences of Population Differentiation: Genomic Approaches
Current Position: Associate Professor, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Dept.
University of California Santa Barbara
http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/eemb/faculty/turner/index.html
UMBANHOWAR, James: Ph.D. March 2002
Mentor(s): Alan Hastings
Dissertation: Temporal and Spatial Variability in Herbivorous Insect Outbreaks; Impacts of Parasitoids and Host Plant.
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
http://bio.unc.edu/people/faculty/umbanhowar/
WANG, Ian J.: Ph.D. August 2010
Mentor(s): Brad Shaffer
Dissertation: The Evolution of Color Polymorphism in a Pair of Poison-Dart Frogs
Current Position: Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
WANG, YING: Ph.D. March 2009
Mentor(s): Bruce Rannala
Dissertation: Bayesian Inference of Recombination Rates and Hotspots Using Population Genomic Data
Current Position: Associate Scientist
Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
http://www.rannala.org/
WARREN, Dan: Ph.D. November 2009
Mentor(s): Michael Turelli and Peter Wainwright
Dissertation: Methodological Advances in the Construction and Application of Environmental Niche Models
Current Position: Senior Scientist
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Frankfurt, Germany
WERNER, Chhaya: Ph.D. December 2018
Mentor(s): Truman Young and Susan Harrison
Dissertation: Temporal Variation and Plant Community Regeneration After Disturbance
Current Position: Postdoc
University of Wyoming, Department of Botany, Laramie, WY
WEXLER, Judith: Ph.D. March 2018
Mentor(s): Artyom Kopp
Dissertation: The Evolutionary Origins of an Insect Sexual Differentiation Pathway Based on Sex-Specific Alternative Splicing
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Zuckerman Fellowship
WETZEL, William C.: Ph.D. March 2015
Mentor(s): Donald Strong
Dissertation: Spatial Heterogeneity in Herbivory: Effects on Individuals, Populations, and Communities
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Michigan State University
https://wetzellab.com/
WHIPPLE, Amy: Ph.D. September 1998
Mentor(s): Donald Strong
Dissertation: Sources of Variation in the Interactions Among the Bush Lupine (Lupinus Orboreus), a Microbial Symbiot (Bradyrhizobium Sp.), a Root-redding Caterpillar (Hepialus Californicus), and an Entomopathogenic Nematode (Heterorhabditis Marelata).
Current Position: Director, Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research
Northern Arizona University ; Adjunct Research Professor, Deptartment of Biological Sciences
http://www.mpcer.nau.edu/igert/whipple.html
WHITE, Easton: Ph.D. December 2018
Mentor(s): Alan Hastings
Dissertation: Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics in an Increasingly Variable World
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire
https://eastonwhite.github.io/, and https://quantmarineecolab.github.io/
WHITNEY, Kenneth: Ph.D. March 2003
Mentor(s): Maureen Stanton
Dissertation: Evolutionary Ecology of Seed Predation and Seed Dispersal in a Polymorphic Acacia.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionay Biology
Rice University
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kwhitney/index.htm
WRIGHT, Amber: Ph.D. September 2009
Mentor(s): Thomas Schoener
Dissertation: Niche Breadth, Disturbance Specialization, and Behavioral Flexibility in an Invasive Lizard Anolis Sgrei.
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Ecology and Conservation Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
YAIR, Sivan: Ph.D. June 2022
Mentor(s): Graham Coop
Dissertation: Selection and Introgression in Human and Other Animals
Current Position: Color Health, Inc., Genomics Data Scientist, Burlingame CA
YAMASHITA, Grant: Ph.D. December 2006
Mentor(s): James Griesemer
Dissertation: On the Germ-soma Distrinction in Evolutionary Biolotorical and Conceptual Approach.
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow and Project Manager, The Embryo Project
Arizona State University
http://cbs.asu.edu/people/profiles/yamashita.php
YANG, Louie: Ph.D. September 2006
Mentor(s): Rick Karban
Dissertation: Periodical Cicadas (Magicicada Spp.) and the Ecolource Pulses.
Current Position: Professor, Dept. of Entomology and Nematology
University of Davis
https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/people/louie-yang
ZWICK, Michael: Ph.D. December 1998
Mentor(s): Charles Langley
Dissertation: Genetic Variation in the Mechanisms of Chromosome Transmission During Female Meiosis.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Human Genetics
Emory University, School of Medicine
http://genetics.emory.edu/faculty/primary/zwick-michael.html